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In 1955, Congress changed the name of the National Microbiological Institute to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to reflect the inclusion of allergy and immunology research. That change became effective on December 29, 1955. [7] The following have been directors of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...
COVID-19 pandemic: Target: Immunisation of Ghanaians against COVID-19: Participants: 1,230,000 people with at least one dose administered of Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine; 376,000 people fully vaccinated. Outcome: 4% of the Ghanaian population has received at least one dose; 1% of the Ghanaian population has been fully vaccinated
U.S. president Donald Trump and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force brief the media on March 16, 2020.. The White House Coronavirus Task Force was the United States Department of State task force during the Trump administration, the goal of the Task Force was to coordinate and oversee the administration's efforts to monitor, prevent, contain, and mitigate the spread of ...
The World Health Organization has classified vaccine related misinformation into five topic areas. These are: threat of disease (vaccine preventable diseases are harmless), trust (questioning the trustworthiness of healthcare authorities who administer vaccines), alternative methods (such as alternative medicine to replace vaccination), effectiveness (vaccines do not work) and safety (vaccines ...
The Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, sold under the brand name Comirnaty, [2] [32] is an mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine developed by the German biotechnology company BioNTech. For its development, BioNTech collaborated with the American company Pfizer to carry out clinical trials, logistics, and manufacturing.
The COVID-19 vaccination in Spain is the national vaccination strategy started on 27 December 2020 in order to vaccinate the country's population against COVID-19 within the international effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the third phase, other adults in the risk group will be vaccinated. Everyone else will be offered a vaccine in the fourth phase of vaccine distribution. [5] As of February 2021, the Public Health Agency had not recommended COVID-19 vaccination to children under 18 unless the child belonged to a high-risk group. [5]
Modern transport infrastructure assisted the spread of the 1889 pandemic. The 19 largest European countries, including the Russian Empire, had about 200,000 km of railroads, and transatlantic travel by sea took less than six days (not significantly different from current travel time by air, given the timescale of the global spread of a pandemic). [11]